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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 14, 2021
Autoliv Asp, Inc., Ogden, UT (US);
Dana Joseph Wold, Farmington Hills, MI (US);
Joseph Scott Massa, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Matthew Robert Reschke, Royal Oak, MI (US);
AUTOLIV ASP, INC., Ogden, UT (US);
Abstract
An inflatable curtain device for protecting occupants in a motor vehicle includes an inflatable curtain adapted to be folded or rolled in an undeployed condition and inflated in a deployed condition, and the inflatable curtain is formed from at least a first and a second fabric layer. The inflatable curtain device further includes at least one portion of one of the first and second fabric layers having a permanent magnet region, which is magnetically attracted to at least one of a second region of the vehicle or a second region of one of the first and second fabric layers thereby provides a retention of the inflatable curtain in a folded or rolled configuration in an installation position with the vehicle and retains the inflatable curtain in the rolled or folded configuration.